Guy Alcala wrote:
Why wouldn't you? Are you a troll or loon, do you continuously post
off-topic crap while providing no valauble on-topic content, are incapable of
reasoned debate so instead spew personal insults, find it impossible to
maintain basic standards of civil discourse, are you a spammer? If you can
answer no to all of the above (and the moderator has no evidence to the
contrary), you'd be in. You're not trying to make such a group elitists
only, just trying to screen out the more obnoxious wasters of bandwidth.


I am reminded of my father's experiences with the WWII moderated newsgroup.
He's been edited out on several occasions because his postings didn't fit the
tightly mandated quote/new material specifications. I can remember on one
occasion where he was edited out because he replied to somebody else's OT post,
even thought the original OT post made it through.

The moderator in question was an academic by trade and a bureaucrat by tendency.
My father was, OTOH, a veteran. It would seem to me he might have something to
offer that group. Not so, according to their moderator.

That's why I don't, as a general rule, subscribe to moderated groups. Besides,
I wouldn't belong to any club that'd have me as a member. G


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Mortimer Schnerd, RN


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